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He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune.

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For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble.

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A good conscience is a continual feast.

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Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical.

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Acorns were good until bread was found.

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The worst solitute is to be destitute of true friendship.

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In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

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It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.

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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand - and melting like a snowflake.

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The less people speak of their greatness, the more we think of it.

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Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.

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If you want to convey fact, this can only ever be done through a form of distortion. You must distort to transform what is called appearance into image.

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The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.

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Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.

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There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

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People prefer to believe what they want to be true.

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A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.

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For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

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The universe must not be narrowed down to the limit of our understanding, but our understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the image of the universe as it is discovered.

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A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

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